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The one true answer
Yes, but why?
Because it’s cool! Also it’s extremely open source, has a cool tech blog, and feels like it has a lot of momentum
GitHub isn't fun anymore
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Before adding the newest fad features, maybe the should go back and add old fads that they missed. One big fad from 50+ years ago that I'd welcome is folders. I don't want to just have all my repositories appear in a flat list ordered by time since last update. I want to make folders so I can organize repositories by topic--just like I have my repositories organized in my computer.
The modern version is tags, but they lack good sorting/viewing for tags
Not wanting to start a discussion about graphs vs trees for organizing, but in my opinion simple folders are great to fulfill basic needs. I cannot imagine a book having no table of contents and just a list of tags with numbers indicating relevant page numbers.
That is just dumbing yourself down in favor of machine classification or search algorithms while a simple solution exists for this problem for higher order classification and context, which tags alone fail to provide, even with sorting.
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#93GitHub's time as the "cool" option has ended. It has matured and moved beyond the early adopter community, and presence on it is no longer a social signal of any significant relevance. I use GitHub to get work done, either on my projects or on others. I do not expect GitHub to innately provide me a degree of fun. That's the job of the projects, not of GitHub itself. Zoom exited the early adopter phase this past pande…
Projects are settting up individual cgit, Gitlab or Bitbucket instances. Roughly half of the projects i contributed to now have their primary upstream outside from Github.
Well on a scale of coolness Bitbucket hits rock bottom, just like all things from Atlassian.
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#94Funnily enough, I recently deleted my account there. Mostly because I don't trust MS and don't want to be in their ecosystems in any way.
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#95> (re: project discovery) We went from a flawed meritocracy to a social network that promotes chaos, tribalism, and idea bubbles. This works well in two senses: 1. We went from a flawed meritocracy (GitHub) to a social network that promotes chaos, tribalism, and idea bubbles (Twitter). 2. GitHub went from a flawed meritocracy to a social network that promotes chaos, tribalism, and idea bubbles (CoCs, them-vs-us narra…
How can something a meritocracy if it's flawed? Either you can actually assess something on its merits or you can't, and if you can't, then you can't really call it a meritocracy, can you?
Correlation is not zero or one, it is continuous. Correlation between metric and merit measures how flawed the meritocracy is.
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>IRC/Slack/Discord already exist There's a discussion feature on beta (see https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/discussions for example) I'd definitely like this to become public soon
This would make GitHub Issues a bit more clean for sure. Lots of people use it for asking questions/for help instead of reporting actual issues/bugs.
As somebody who is guilty of this, my rationale is this: I went to slack/discord/IRC channels, asked for help and... almost no answer. Ask the same question in a comment of a popular issue or a new issue, and you get your answer (with some delay). The thing is that GH issues have replaces mailing lists/usenet for this kind of questions since the friction is way lower, it's async and the question goes to the right people.
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#97Communication of the open source community feels like it's down. Social media eventually killed forums and chat rooms. Social media if anything, made learning and discovering a more isolated experience. RSS isn't what it used to be either, that compounded with blog posts being down, and the sheer volume of bad tutorials, bad code, and bad ideas, it's hard to sift through it all and discover things of value.
Early Twitter were the golden years in my eyes. You could ask a question or post an idea and get responses from random developers. Now it's just echoes into the ether.
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#98Ending a blog post with "What do you think?" but not having any comment option. While the post wants more social features on another website.
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#99GitHub's time as the "cool" option has ended. It has matured and moved beyond the early adopter community, and presence on it is no longer a social signal of any significant relevance. I use GitHub to get work done, either on my projects or on others. I do not expect GitHub to innately provide me a degree of fun. That's the job of the projects, not of GitHub itself. Zoom exited the early adopter phase this past pande…
Me and the rest of the cool gang have been using GitLab for a while now.
What’s the difference for a personal user? Is gitlab better?
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#100I’ve never considered GitHub to be “fun.” It’s a great tool, though.
Most of my GH interaction is through my desktop system, not a browser (pushing and pulling checkouts).
I’ve been using some form of source control for nearly 30 years (since Projector, in the 1990s). It’s a tool. A very, very important tool.
I appreciate many of the “glossy” features of GH, like hero images and GH Pages, but this shows how “out of touch” I must be, because I have never considered it to be a social venue or competitive arena.
It’s just a place I keep my code. I’m quite grateful for it.